Grief Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCBBCCB DEDEDE A FGGFFGGF HIJKJII | A |
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On immemorial altitudes august | B |
Grief holds her high dominion Bold the feet | C |
That climb unblenching to that stern retreat | C |
Whence looking down man knows himself but dust | B |
There lie the mightiest passions earthward thrust | B |
Beneath her regnant footstool and there meet | C |
Pale ghosts of buried longings that were sweet | C |
With many an abdicated shall and must | B |
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For there she rules omnipotent whose will | D |
Compels a mute acceptance of her chart | E |
Who holds the world and lo it cannot fill | D |
Her mighty hand who will be served apart | E |
With uncommunicable rites and still | D |
Surrender of the undivided heart | E |
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II | A |
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She holds the world within her mighty hand | F |
And lo it is a toy for babes to toss | G |
And all its shining imagery but dross | G |
To those that in her awful presence stand | F |
As sun confronting eagles o'er the land | F |
That lies below they send their gaze across | G |
The common intervals of gain and loss | G |
And hope's infinitude without a strand | F |
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But he who on that lonely eminence | H |
Watches too long the whirling of the spheres | I |
Through dim eternities descending thence | J |
The voices of his kind no longer hears | K |
And blinded by the spectacle immense | J |
Journeys alone through all the after years | I |
Edith Wharton
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